"Saturday Night Live" dedicated its cold-opening this week to the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations--and to announce an unlikely deal between Democrats and Republicans had been reached.

"We'd like to announce we have reached an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff," Jay Pharaoh, reprising his role as President Obama, said during the faux joint press conference with House Speaker John Boehner, played by Bill Hader. "In order to get the support of the speaker, I agreed there would be no tax increases."

"Now why would I do that?" Pharoah's Obama continued. "I mean I won the election. I had the leverage. Why give in? Simply put, I felt sorry for this man."

Fellow Republicans, President Obama explained, took Boehner's milk in the Congressional cafeteria and threw it in the garbage, put a rubber snake in his desk and pushed him into the ladies room "naked from the waist down."

"This is a United States congressman, one that I find extremely conservative and hard to deal with," the president said. "Yet at no point have I ever considered putting a rubber snake in his desk."

(Pete Souza/White House/Flickr)

As it goes with virtually everything else he does, the moment President Barack Obama fielded the phone call from Mitt Romney on election night conceding the 2012 race was photographed and documented for history by the White House. And now it's on Flickr.

The image, taken by White House photographer Pete Souza, shows President Obama leaning against a chair in the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel's aptly-named Presidential Suite on Nov. 6, presumably listening to the former Massachusetts governor. The White House uploaded the digital photo along with several others (flying with former President Bill Clinton and campaign staffers on Air Force One, leading a briefing on the response to Hurricane Sandy, kissing a baby on the tarmac) to the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site last week.

On Thursday, President Obama and Romney met for lunch at the White House, their first face-to-face meeting since the bitter election campaign.

The White House barred reporters from the event, but released the official photo--also shot by Souza--showing Obama giving Romney a tour of the Oval Office.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference at Stormont Castle in Belfast December 7, 2012. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify publicly to Congress on the findings of the State Department's investigation into the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, a top lawmaker said Friday.

Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Clinton had agreed to come before her panel to discuss a probe into the attack by the State Department's accountability review board (ARB). The congresswoman did not specify a date.

"As we anticipate the release of the ARB report, I look forward to discussing with the Secretary what corrective measures has the Department undertaken to address problems identified in the months following the Benghazi attack, including security of our posts, threat assessments, host government responsibilities, and coordination with other U.S. security agencies," the lawmaker said in a statement.

Ros-Lehtinen's office said the ARB report was expected next week and that Clinton "will be testifying soon thereafter" to her committee and to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.